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British Columbia commercial rents.

Historical rent movement and a practical framework for comparing documented lease terms.

Research edition · October 2026
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The latest source reading

The all-building index is 116.9 in June 2026, compared with a 2019 annual average base of 100. The calculated year-over-year movement is +2.90%. Over the five years from June 2021 to June 2026, the same series changes by +15.63%. These are calculations from index points, not quoted dollar rents.

Use the chart to inspect the path as well as the latest observation. Comparing the same month one year earlier avoids mixing adjacent periods with a year-over-year comparison. The series is not seasonally adjusted; the recent quarter can be revised. A five-year change is cumulative, not an annual rate.

June 2026 · Index 2019 = 100 · Calculated YoY against June 2025
Building typeIndexYoYSource vector
Total, building type116.9+2.90%v1210497034
Office buildings110.6+0.45%v1210497046
Retail buildings110.4+2.79%v1210497057
Industrial buildings and warehouses129.4+4.61%v1210497068

What this geography covers

This aggregate includes a broader geography than a single city. Its movement can provide context, but cannot determine a quote for an individual property.

Separate office, retail and industrial series are available for this geography.

Original asking-rent medians and quote percentiles are withheld for this geography until reviewed comparable observations qualify. An official series is not evidence that our own asking-rent sample is populated. There is no achieved-lease estimate, vacancy rate or individual-property valuation on this page.

Build a comparable lease budget

Start a local quote comparison with a dated written rent schedule, a stated payment period and the precise premises. Record rentable area, base-rent basis, additional charges, incentives and proposed lease term. A headline rate without those details cannot establish a reliable occupancy budget.

For office, record layout efficiency and service inclusions. For industrial, record loading, clear height and yard rights. For retail, record frontage, fit-out and the operating requirements. Those attributes can make two similarly sized spaces poor comparables. Use our sector guides to prepare a requirements sheet.

Publisher report averages, when available, retain their own geography, class and weighting. An average of marketed space is a different observation from this occupied-space index. Neither is inserted into an independent local median or percentile calculation.

01 / Market movement

See the direction.
Understand the measure.

Official occupied-space rent movement provides context. Index points measure change over time; they are not dollar rents or a current asking-rent estimate.

Calgary rent movement

Official source

Choose a point for its exact observation.

Net effective rent for occupied space · 2019 = 100 · Not seasonally adjusted.
Latest quarter preliminary; recent history can be revised.

Source: Statistics Canada · Table 18-10-0255-01 · Release 20 Aug 2026 · Snapshot 10 Oct 2026.
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MonthIndex · 2019 = 100Evidence
June 2026111.3Official source
02 / Asking-rent context

Put a dollar quote
into perspective.

Primary publisher reports offer useful reference points. These are separate averages with distinct populations, dates and definitions—not our own sampled rent distributions.

Report context

Calgary industrial

$11.54 PSF

Q3 2026 · CBRE. Available-space-weighted asking net rent, excluding taxes, maintenance and insurance.

Publisher report quote. Confirm the payment period before budgeting.
Report context

Edmonton industrial

$11.36 PSF

Q3 2026 · CBRE. Available-space-weighted asking net rent, excluding taxes, maintenance and insurance.

Publisher report quote. Confirm the payment period before budgeting.
Original research

Our local rent benchmark

Building evidence

A median and middle 50% range will be published when reviewed, deduplicated local observations qualify.

Current eligible sample: 0 spaces. No original dollar benchmark or custom asking index published.
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Report quotes preserve the publisher’s PSF unit. The retrieved headings do not explicitly specify the annual payment period. These quotes are not automatically loaded into the lease calculator.

Questions worth asking.

Is this the current rent per square foot?

No. It is an index of occupied-space net effective rent movement. Index points do not provide a current dollar quotation.

Can I use another city’s index to price my lease?

It can provide historical context, but pricing a lease requires comparable space, terms, dates and charge inclusions. Different index levels are not evidence that one city has higher dollar rents.

Make the next comparison count.

Put documented lease terms through the calculator, or discuss a requirement with Commercially.